LL413E      Half Unit
International Economic Law II

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Prof Andrew Lang

Availability

This course is available on the Executive Master of Laws (ELLM). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Available to Executive LLM students only. This course will be offered on the Executive LLM during the four year degree period. The Law School will not offer all Executive LLM courses every year, although some of the more popular courses may be offered in each year, or more than once each year. Please note that whilst it is the Law School's intention to offer all Executive LLM courses, its ability to do so will depend on the availability of the staff member in question. For more information please refer to the Law School website. 

Course content

This course is a continuation of LL412E.  In International Economic Law II, topics to be covered may include: Trade Remedies (Antidumping, Countervailing duties and Safeguards); Trade and Global Value Chains; State-owned Enterprises; Advanced Issues in WTO Dispute Settlement; Digital Trade; Trade and Taxation; the Level Playing Field and others. We will set aside time to consider contemporary issues, for example around international trade in the post-Trump era, digital trade, public international regulation of global finance, regional economic integration, development and developing countries in the trading system, and environmental aspects of international trade.

Teaching

24-26 hours of contact time.

Formative assessment

Students will have the option of producing a formative exam question of 2000 words to be delivered one month from the end of the module’s teaching session by email.

 

Indicative reading

M.J. Trebilcock, R. Howse and A. Eliason, The Regulation of International Trade, 4th ed., Routledge, 2012; P. Van den Bossche and W. Zdouc, The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials, 4th ed., Cambridge UP, 2017; P. Van Den Bossche and D. Prevost, Essentials of WTO Law (CUP, 2016); S. Lester and B. Mercurio, World Trade Law: Texts, Materials and Commentary, 3rd ed., Hart Publishing 2018.

Assessment

Assessment Pathway 1

Essay (100%, 8000 words)

Assessment Pathway 2

Legal problems (100%)


Key facts

Department: LSE Law School

Course Study Period: Autumn Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 7

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: Unavailable

Average class size 2024/25: Unavailable

Controlled access 2024/25: No
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